How To Avoid Nuclear War

 

Given the pace of development and deployment of hypersonic missiles and the proliferation of atomic weapons in Islamic states, regional and intercontinental nuclear war seems certain, not a question of whether the most horrifying cataclysm imaginable will ensue, merely when. I believe we have a decade or two to avoid nuclear war by leaving Earth and colonizing the Moon.

 

I would prefer it to be a private enterprise, involving Russians and Americans. Don't invite Brits, Krauts, or Frogs to help, unless you want to pour sand in the engine. Xi could be flattered into a competition, racing against the private consortium of US and Russian billionaires. It's a big Moon, plenty of room to accommodate anyone who can get there. Competition is good.

 

An initial colony needs heavy lifting of multiple freighter missions, landed near a favorable target with lunar ice. Pending complicated planning and engineering, I'd ship a water works, nuclear power plant, residential hotel, food production, and 1000 tons of pipeline tools and plumbing supplies. Big program. Perhaps $1 trillion to be privately financed for profit in a generational perspective. You want to continue the human race? Seed your DNA into the future? Acquire the right to escape Earth? Trillions in market value will be wiped out when we spiral into grim global suicide. Invest in a moon colony pronto.

 

Let others deploy their hearts and half-truths to deter nuclear war, which will fail. The United Nations and NATO are nonprofit bureaucracies spewing cash to staff employees and assorted tribal chieftains. SpaceX has state of the art launch controls. Russians know how to launch big payloads. Finely filtering the aerospace community worldwide, a small group initially. We must be nimble and entrepreneurial. There are very few executives who could successfully lead a multinational industrial program on a tight schedule. That's the first thing to decide, who the CEO is. If he wasn't such an idiot, fussing with party politics, Donald Trump would be an ideal candidate to save mankind and send his DNA into the future. No better salesman. He's an amazingly energetic man, listened carefully to experts and made decisions of immense national and foreign impact, a routine daily agenda when Trump led the Western Alliance and sweet talked Kim into suspending his plutonium production and rocket operations.

 

I'm not certain how to distribute my proposal to appropriate people. I suppose the simplest way to start is to contact Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. They like each other, no problem discussing hard truths and stepwise collaboration. An easy cover story, publicly announced private initiative to reduce tensions for the sake of humanity, which is more or less true. The goal of meeting Putin is to explore how to get around FinCen, Egmont, and NSA. The Laissez Faire City International Trust was chartered in Moscow. It worked fine, easy to move cash worldwide. It might not be necessary to move big pallets of fiat paper. Putin has a stash of .999 banker bars to solve supply chokepoints.

 

Consortium partners should build things with their own resources of cashflow and sky high paper value of certain NYSE and Nasdaq listed holdings. Liquidate at a loss if you have to. Not a good idea to dither. Wall Street is floating on a fully inflated balloon of Fed hot air, leaking and losing altitude.

 

What would a consortium deal require? Appointment of CEO and a board of key players with skin in the game. Allocation of who builds what, who needs extra funds to expand operations, movement of paper documents in a way that doesn't attract attention. Time lines and transport of payloads and boosters to launch facilities. A lot to discuss, needs a big team, scrambled communications, unrelenting effort.

 

Are men capable of such a feat? Certainly.

 

After the basic infrastructure is installed on the moon, the next logical thing to do is to build it out and invite young people to relocate, brainy women in particular. Phase Two is an industrial plant, to explore and exploit lunar minerals, so that the colony will become a productive economy, able to maintain and expand its footprint. Now that I think about it, rumors and hard news of launching heavy payloads will excite attention worldwide. We could recoup some Phase Two expense by televising a reality TV soap opera. It'll be a huge sensation watching the first baby being delivered in 1/6 gravity by a brainy lunar midwife and two nervous astronauts, one of whom reads an OB checklist and gets told to shut up.